The Worst Songs/Videos ever Made- Post your own!

Youtube ^ | 01-01-2016 | Self-Vanity

[ghosthost]

The only thing that is better than picking out the greatest music ever written is to pick out the most irritating, horrid music ever written. Take a break from the politics for a moment and view my picks, and please add your own!

[free-in-nyc]

1974 was a particularly bad year

Billy Don't Be a Hero

Seasons in the Sun

Midnight At the Oasis

Whatever Gets You Through the Night

I could go on but, oy vey!

Stuff like that is why punk rock began in the mid 70's.

[Huntress]

Am I wrong to want to punch the guy playing keyboards?

[Organic Panic]

Hand down by far the worst all time song is

“Jingle Bells” the Babs Streisand edition.

When I was going to college I worked as a night stocker at a department store and they played that song every 20 minutes on a looped audio that we could not shut off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Nq0CuUKTjc

[To Hell With Poverty]

It's much better with the music turned off, believe me. ;)

[Churchillspirit]

Last Christmas I Gave You My Heart

Totally inane.

[Huntress]

Almost 170 posts and no one’s mentioned “Alice’s Restaurant.”

[To Hell With Poverty]

Dang, that there’s some authentic frontier gibberish!

[hoagy62]

Gayest video ever

I beg to differ.....

Tarzan Boy- Baltimora

Big in Japan-Alphaville

There's TWO that are gay-er.

[Drumbo]

Firstly, "Black Betty" is attributed to Delta bluesman Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter and was first recorded in 1933 by a convict named James Baker at Central State Prison Farm in Sugar Land, Texas. The 1977 version by Ram Jam is a cover of Lead Belly's 1939 a cappella version which supposedly referred to the nickname of the "Black Maria" - a penitentiary transfer wagon. Black Betty was also the name of a driver's bull whip used on prisoners ("bam-ba-lam").

My favorite origin story is that the song is derived from an 18th-century marching cadence about a flint-lock musket with a black painted stock; the "bam-ba-lam" lyric referring to the sound of the gunfire. Soldiers in the field were said to carry Black Betty. In one interpretation, the musket was superseded by its "child", a musket with an unpainted walnut stock known as a "Brown Bess". Another version of the Black Betty musket claims the child is the musket ball. "That child is wild" meaning the ball did not always go where it should. "The child is blind" meaning it did not care whether it hit friend or foe, "Black Betty don't care" meaning the musket doesn't care who is killed by its child, and "that child ain't mine" meaning that the shooter couldn't be held responsible for the work of the the projectile. At least that's what I wrote on Wikipedia, lol.

In 1736, Benjamin Franklin published "The Drinker's Dictionary" in the Pennsylvania Gazette offering some 200 phrases for being drunk. One of those phrases is "He's kiss'd black Betty", the nickname of a liquor bottle, so that might explain it.

This is the first I've heard about Ray Charles' mother! If you have a source I can cite I can add it. Ray was born in 1930 and actually had two mothers! His biological mother Aretha, as well as his absent fathers first wife, a woman named Mary Jane. Growing up, he referred to Aretha as "Mama", and Mary Jane as "mother".

But, you said Post your own (worst song) - so I will.

In 1980, I was being interviewed on WNOR FM99 in Hampton Roads Virginia by radio host the late Henry "The Bull" Del Toro (and his sidekick "Bucky" played by Jimmy Rae Dunn). I had a tape of a previous telephone interview where The Bull and Bucky had trashed my band Thunderstruck. Before the live in-studio interview I rushed into the station's production studio and hurriedly wrote lyrics and recorded "The Drumbo Rap" utilizing the tape of The Bull disparaging my band (backed by the instrumental "Funny Bone", a 1979 Nile Rodgers and Chic flip side to the Disco single "Good Times". "Funny Bone" is still in bumper music rotation on the Rush Limbaugh Show. "The Drumbo Rap" isn't).

It's easily the worst thing I ever recorded, but it was aired on the #1 rock station in the 18th largest radio market in the country, butchered lyrics and all. I have no shame.

The Drumbo Rap
~ Drumbo Thunder ~

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[ViLaLuz]

That Samwell “song”... I can’t believe that’s for real.

[JDoutrider]

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[ghosthost]

good one! Redundant

[Migraine]

Hmm. I never saw the connection. What is it, BTW?

[T-Bone Texan]

Many people STILL think Billy Squier is a flaming homo due to that video.

It was a sea change for his career!

[T-Bone Texan]

Nelson - After The Rain

The defense rests.

[T-Bone Texan]

Your post reminded me of the song Peaches, by the Presidents of the United States of America.

It’s actually a valid song.

[T-Bone Texan]

Van Halen did a cover of Dancing in the Streets that was pretty bad also.

Off their Diver Down album.

[ex91B10]

“Sky pilot” is grunt jargon for a military unit’s chaplin, who’d pray with men before combat action.

[chris37]

Hah!

Yep, I remember that song. Not bad at all, I remember hearing it on the radio a few times a while back and enjoying it.

Certainly MUCH BETTER than that other “song” I mentioned.

I am glad that I have heard nothing else from Peaches. Her talent and imagination seem limited at best.

[hellinahandcart]

Oh my goodness, yes. Every song mentioned on this thread is Mozart compared to “Timothy.” From overwrought orchestration to really embarrassing lyrics, that song had EVERYTHING wrong with it.

So glad there wasn’t a video.